Emma Trelles is a Cuban-American poet, editor, and author of Tropicalia (University of Notre Dame Press), winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. She is the 9th Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California (2021-23) and the recipient of an Established Artist Fellowship from the California Arts Council (2023-24). In 2022, she was named one of 22 Poet Laureate Fellows across the country by the Academy of American Poets for her creative and community work. A current CantoMundo Fellow, her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review; Poetry Magazine, the Academy’s Poem-A-Day series, the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly; Best American Poetry; and others. She is series editor of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, open to Latine poets in the U.S. and published in bilingual editions by Gunpowder Press.